Eyvind Johnson Quotes

The fundamental democratic principles on which American Society is organized, are those principles of justice and mercy by which the guilty, the ignorant, the needy, and the infirm, are saved and blessed.

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

Freedom is not enough.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

If you want peace, work for justice.

I hope that liberty and equality and opportunity lie within your heart because the hopes of millions of Americans depend on it.

It is justice not charity that is wanting in the world.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

If you want peace work for justice.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.